About
Karen Curley is a media artist, interactive designer, filmmaker and lecturer who explores the creation of interactive spatial experiences across digital and analogue media. Her research focus encompasses the development of experiential environments, tangible interfaces and responsive spaces. Central areas she investigates embrace intersections between digital media, spatial design, interactivity and architecture, whilst her work also considers potential sustainable methodologies as applied to electronic or kinetic media with projects often situated at the crossroads of design and technology.
Research highlights include Blinkendress, a tangible electroluminescent garment commission which featured as part of a global music tour in over 82 venues worldwide, an international premiere of the optical sound live performance work [i/o] at media arts festival Piksel ’09 in Bergen, Norway and participation in Lightwave, a major design event at the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, with the collaborative project Lightbox. Further creative practice includes film festival screenings at Urbanscreens 08, Federation Square, Melbourne; Tramuntana 09, Girona, Spain; Energetics and Informatics: 7th ADA Symposium, at the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui and collaborative kinetic sound sculptures at Club Transmediale, Berlin.
Curley has recently collaborated in the international Particle Tracks music tour where she co-designed a series of responsive projections for NZ musician Bachelorette (based in New York and signed to Drag City record label). These generative sound reactive visuals were featured across US, UK and Europe during 2011, with venues including The Bowery Ballroom, New York; Astra Kulturhaus, Berlin; Haus der Musik, Vienna and North by Northwest festival, Amsterdam.
